Scottish Executive

Concessionary Travel

John Swinburne (Central Scotland) (SSCUP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5115 by Nicol Stephen on 3 February 2004, what the actual spend was of each local authority on concessionary travel fares in 2002-03.

Nicol Stephen: The information requested is as follows:

  Concessionary Fares Net1 Revenue Expenditure

  

 
2002-03


Scotland
65,284


Aberdeen City
3,467


Aberdeenshire
1,365


Angus
813


Argyll and Bute
1,353


Clackmannanshire
549


Dumfries and Galloway
842


Dundee City
2,542


East Ayrshire
1,910


East Dunbartonshire
1,730


East Lothian
1,074


East Renfrewshire
1,381


Edinburgh City
5,896


Eilean Siar
158


Falkirk
1,800


Fife
5,016


Glasgow City
9,042


Highland
1,195


Inverclyde
1,378


Midlothian
725


Moray
542


North Ayrshire
2,210


North Lanarkshire
4,542


Orkney Islands
66


Perth and Kinross
1,204


Renfrewshire
2,693


Scottish Borders
699


Shetland Islands
138


South Ayrshire
2,116


South Lanarkshire
4,499


Stirling
768


West Dunbartonshire
1,440


West Lothian
2,131



  Source: LFR 5 return to the Scottish Executive (1996-97 to 2002-03).

  Notes:

  1. Net expenditure is expenditure to be financed from grants, non-domestic rates, council taxes and balances.

Transport

Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the role of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority will be, given the proposed creation of a national transport agency and regional transport partnerships; what powers the authority will retain and what powers will be ceded to which body; what alternative source of funding will exist for the development of the A8000, and what alternative body will fund it.

Nicol Stephen: The relationship between the Forth Estuary Transport Authority and the national transport agency and regional transport partnerships will be assessed as part of the second phase of the Executive’s review of tolled bridges. It is our intention that the second phase will be completed in time to allow its findings to be taken into account in establishing the new national and regional transport arrangements.

Transport

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made, or plans to make, to Her Majesty’s Government in support of legislative measures to prohibit the adaptation of exhausts of vehicles that are to be used on public highways.

Nicol Stephen: We are in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of transport-related issues.